Elocution Lesson Quotes & Sayings

I can't be in love with every hot movie star; it's exhausting. — Katie Heaney

Being rich had felt to Edgar like treading alone for all of time in a beautiful, bottomless pool. So much, so blue, and nothing to push off from. No grit or sand, no sturdy earth, just his own constant movement to keep above the surface. It was easy to hate riches when they surrounded him, but Edgar did not know how to be any other kind of person. He did not know that in every life the work of want and survival was just as floorless, just as unstopping. — Ramona Ausubel

It is not known why motorists, who sing the joys of the open road, spend so much petrol every week-end grinding their way to Southend and Brighton and Margate, in the stench of each other's exhausts, one hand on the horn and one foot on the brake, their eyes starting from their orbits in the nerve-racking search for cops, corners, blind turnings, and cross-road suicides. — Dorothy L. Sayers

All the things we did for this land of ours!
Some of us died;
Some of us gave speeches. — Orhan Veli Kanik

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it — Edgar Allan Poe

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead! — Jonathan Franzen

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. — Harry Vardon

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! — Milan Kundera